Cynthia Lord Quotes
If you can get people to care about the little things, they'll care about the big things, too.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Most of the things that happened to them we were up on, but we learned a few things too.
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If you can get people to care about the little things, they'll care about the big things, too.
